Defensewerx

Pia - partnership intermediary agreement that includes innovation and collaboration, technology transfer, workforce development, and neutral facilitation. For innovation and collaboration services the organization creates and maintains innovation and colloboration environments that enable customers to effectively expand their scientific research project's performance. For technology transfer the organization works with government, industry and academia to explore innovative strategies for effectively transferring government laboratory scientific research technologies to the commercial marketplace and vice versa. The institute hosts and conducts forums to facilitate the exchange of technology ideas between goverment researchers, commercial entities and academic entities to share information and identify potential commercialization opporunities.for workforce development the organization seeks to support education opportunities to the current workforce to enhance or expand their skill sets in a variety of both traditional and non-traditional methods. These approaches may range from classroom style functional training, to leadership seminars, to creative workshops or guest lecturers. Di also works with the air force research laboratory, okaloosa county school district, northwest Florida state university, university of west Florida, Florida state university, and university of Florida to expose young students to high-caliber science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) learning opportunities.

Socom - special operations command located in tampa, fl at mcdill air force base. The department of defense (dod) activated u.s. special operations command (ussocom) on april 16, 1987, at macdill air force base, fla. dod created the new unified command in response to congressional action in the goldwater-nichols defense reorganization act of 1986 and the nunn-cohen amendment to the national defense authorization act of 1987. Congress mandated a new four-star command be activated to prepare special operations forces (sof) to carry out assigned missions and, if directed by the president or secretary of defense (secdef), to plan for and conduct special operations.